Sorry for the late reply, I'm pretty sure they're solid. It also has a weird "moaning" sound that has been present for ~5 years. He had a tuning video on Youtube where the sound was present and nobody could track down the issue. I initially thought a belt or pulley but even after shutoff it fades away after 1-2 seconds. No performance impact or issues, but that coupled with the idle is pointing me to a vacuum leak.